Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2009

World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% in 2008 to reach 27.4 Energy prices reflected this shift: oil peaked at $144 per barrel in July, then fell to $34 per barrel in December. Continuing a decade-long trend, most of the growth was in the Asia-Pacific region, where production grew 6.3%.

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2008 Oil-Sands Production Fuel 150

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Production has officially ended on the Mini Clubman, with the automaker giving its farewell address for the model which saw nearly 21,000 deliveries inside the United States for 2023. That’s down from a peak of roughly 54,000 units in 2008. That’s down from a peak of roughly 54,000 units in 2008.

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Production BMW SUV 2008 101

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

Under the agreement, the two partners will work jointly to make the polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell ready for production. Currently, this fuel is mainly produced for industrial applications, at a kilogram price that frequently exceeds five euros. As production grows, the price should fall.

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Fuel Production Hydrogen Sweden 283

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

When oil prices were high and production was relentlessly climbing, energy related junk bonds looked highly profitable. The situation will compound itself if oil prices stay low. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the oil and gas sector on November 25 to a “negative” outlook because of falling oil prices.

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Oil Prices Oil Price North Dakota 270

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

Elkem, a company developing silicones, silicon products and carbon solutions, officially inaugurated the world’s first carbon capture pilot for smelters. Ferrosilicon is mainly used for the production of carbon & other alloy steels, stainless steel, cast iron, and electric steel. With full-scale implementation, 1.5

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Carbon Norway Industrial Industry 284

Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Car buyers looking for a used Tesla Model 3 in the UK may be in luck, as recent reports have revealed that the prices of the all-electric sedan in the second-hand market are starting to level off. As noted by Car Dealer Magazine UK , used vehicle prices in the UK dropped by just 0.5% But they are still priced quite high.

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Price Tesla Mercedes Dealers 58

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

Up to now, SKIET has been supplying separators for IT and electronic products to the Sunwoda Group. According to the MOU, both companies agreed to communicate actively about expanding the supply of separators with technological capabilities, quality, and price competitiveness in the future.

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Supplies Batteries Battery South Korea 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

However, even with increases in 2010 and 2011, projected CO 2 emissions in 2011 are lower than annual emissions from 1999 through 2008. This growth is the result of an expected recovery in the global economy, with world gross domestic product (GDP, on an oil-weighted basis) assumed to rise by more than 3 percent per year.

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2008 2010 Emissions Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Test to understand where a product design fails and use parallel solution paths. Several listeners have asked about medical device products and I searched for someone with deep experience in this area. This ability to learn from product managers in different industries is one of the things I most enjoy about this podcast.

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Production Manufacturer Price Industrial 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

CO 2 emissions from the US transport sector, 1990-2008. The draft report of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s annual Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 shows that in 2008, overall greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions decreased by 2.9% (206.1 Tg CO 2 in 2008 from 1,893.8 Click to enlarge.

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2008 Emissions EPA Transportation 231

Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2018

Electric-car maker Tesla is known for troubled launches, at least for the four products it's offered since the first Roadster in 2008. But the launch of the Tesla Model 3, its lower-priced electric sedan, may be the most challenging yet—and it may be the Tesla with the highest expectations.

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Parts Production Tesla 2008 104

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

Global CO 2 emissions from fuel use and cement production by region. in 2008, against 3.3% In addition to high oil prices and the financial crisis, the increased use of new renewable energy sources, such as biofuels for road transport and wind energy for electricity generation, had a noticeable and mitigating impact on CO 2 emissions.

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2008 Oil Renewable Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2009

Emissions of greenhouse gases from European businesses participating in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) (cap-and-trade) fell 3.06 % in 2008 compared with a year earlier, according to the information provided by Member State registries. those participating in the system—was 11,359 in 2008, which is 213 fewer than in 2007.

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2008 Emissions Liechtenstein Iceland 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2015

Even as financial commentators on CNBC are starting to come around to the idea of a bottom in oil prices, the key question for US oil producers remains one of timing. How long will the oil price slump last? Is this a relatively short term event like 2008, or a longer term slump like the one in the mid 1980’s?

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Saudi Arabia Oil Prices Oil Price 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Natural gas consumption and production was up over 5%, one of the strongest rates of growth for both demand and output for over 30 years. Coal consumption (+1.4%) and production (+4.3%) increased for the second year in a row in 2018, following three years of decline (2014-16). Cobalt and Lithium production rose by 13.9%

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Climate Change Climate Coal 2018 223

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

However, the spike in vanadium prices (ferrovanadium prices increased by about 200% in 2018) caused Chinese mills to substitute niobium to vanadium and Chinese niobium imports increased 30% year-on-year both in 2018 and 2019. CBMM dominates the market with a 78% market share and is seen as the price-setter.

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Li-ion Industrial Industry Lithium Ion 378

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

When the new isomerization unit is completed in 2015, we will be able to refine higher volumes of premium-quality gasoline that commands a higher price on export markets. —Matti Lehmus, Neste Oil’s Executive Vice President, Oil Products and Renewables. The isomerization unit will have a capacity of 600,000 t/a.

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Gasoline Oil Finland Production 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Total US exports of finished petroleum products have increased more than 60% since 2007 as markets have become more globally integrated, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The volume of petroleum products exported from the United States is a small portion of US consumption of those products. Annual U.S.

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2007 Global Market Production 273

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

Start of production for the new smart fortwo electric drive. Daimler AG has begun production of the new smart fortwo electric drive at the smart Hambach plant. Like the models with combustion engines, the electric vehicle is now rolling off the production line in the standardized production process. Click to enlarge.

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Buy Production Batteries Battery 320

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

This larger resource leads to about double the shale gas production and more than 20% higher total lower-48 natural gas production in 2035, with lower natural gas prices, than was projected in the AEO2010 Reference case. In 2035, the average real price of crude oil in the Reference case is $125 per barrel in 2009 dollars.

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Gas 2011 Price Energy 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2010

Due to what it termed “ strong public interest ” in the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors will increase US production capacity of the Volt by 50%, from 30,000 units to 45,000 units, in 2012. The announcement came as US President Barack Obama toured the Detroit-Hamtramck facility, where the Volt is being produced now for sale later this year.

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Volt GM 2012 Production 244

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Indicative checkpoints to reach net-zero GHG emissions from international shipping: To reduce the total annual GHG emissions from international shipping by at least 20%, striving for 30%, by 2030, compared to 2008; and To reduce the total annual GHG emissions from international shipping by at least 70%, striving for 80%, by 2040, compared to 2008.

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International Emissions Mariner 2008 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

EU biodiesel production increased 16.6% This increase is well below the increases in production in three of the four prior years (35% in. 2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. Despite this lower production increase, the EU remains the. 50 000 tonnes between March 2008 and March 2009.

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2009 Production 2008 Italy 230

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2010

The partners aim to build a test plant around 2013 and begin full-on production around 2020. The partners reckon that mass production will lower the price of biobutanol to about 30-40 yen a liter, about the same as ethanol, making it an affordable alternative to gas and petrochemicals. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Resources.

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Suzuki Production 2006 2008 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

million barrels per day (bbl/d), was down 124 thousand bbl/d compared with the same time last year, continuing the trend of lower consumption and higher prices, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Along with prices, current economic conditions and vehicle fleet efficiency have also affected gasoline consumption.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2012

Corn production in the US will be down 13% from last year at 10.8 billion bushels—the lowest production since 2006— according to the latest Crop Production report released today by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). All wheat production, at 2.27

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Production 2011 2012 Renewable 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2015

Ethos Electric Vehicles, a small, Alaska-based company building custom electric motorcycles and automobiles, has launched a $100,000 crowd-funding campaign for reworking an existing internal combustion engine kit car—the Graber Cars’ La Bala —into a low-volume production, all-wheel drive (AWD) electric roadster. Top: The La Bala.

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Alaska Companies Kits Production 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2018

Refined product demand growth has averaged 1.2 With economic growth robust and prices still under pressure, indications are that the current strong global refined product demand growth will continue through to end-2020, averaging 1.1 Five-year rolling aggregate global liquids demand growth. Source: IHS Markit 2018.

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Oil Global 2003 2007 276

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Worldwide energy consumption will grow by 53% between 2008 and 2035 with much of the increase driven by strong economic growth in the developing nations, especially China and India, according to the reference case in the newly released International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Oil-Sands Oil 2008 Oil Prices 220

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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2019 Industrial Industry Production 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2013

The world’s consumption of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heating oil, and other petroleum products reached a record high of 88.9 In 2009, Asia surpassed North America as the world’s largest petroleum-consuming region as consumption rebounded from its 2008 decline. Between 2008 and 2012, Asia’s consumption increased by 4.4

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North America 2012 America Europe 261

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Where previous estimates anticipated farmers bringing additional land into production as a result of increased corn prices, recent analysis finds only modest increases in crop acreage. Farmers in the United States and elsewhere respond by bringing new land into production. Searchinger et al.

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Gasoline Colombia 2010 Emissions 255

Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

The shift to battery vehicles could massively reduce demand for palladium, although some miners are working on the development of products that could boost consumption. TD Securities sees palladium prices at USD 1,050 per ounce in the first quarter.

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Auto Ukraine Russia Price 40

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Global energy intensity—defined as total energy consumption divided by gross world product—increased 1.35% in 2010, the second year of increases in the context of a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article from the Worldwatch Institute. Global energy intensity, 1981-2010.

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2010 Global Energy 2008 246

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Antonov, the UK-based automatic transmission specialist, reports significant progress being made to bring its TX-6 gearbox into production in China. Antonov TX-6 transmission in its final production form. All key suppliers for the final development build and production components have been selected. Earlier post.)

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China Production Chinese Manufacturer 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2012

By reducing the capital and operating costs of compression, natural gas producers can continue to operate stripper wells at very low flow rates and low natural gas prices. Based on 2008 statistics, more than 322,000 stripper gas wells in the United States account for 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas annually, enough to supply 16?million

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Design Hybrid Transportation Production 231

Teslarati

MAY 27, 2023

Its quarter-million dollar price tag in 2008 essentially reserved it for the rich and famous, and it was bought by many celebrities. Tesla sparred with production issues of the vehicle as it nearly bankrupt the company. However, investors put more money into the electric automaker, which kept the operation going.

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Tesla 2008 Chinese Parts 84